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From this oyster of Hydrogen comes the new baby pearl - Al Niyat, actually two twin stars too close to tell apart. The region is clouded with orange glowing dust from Antares out of frame. Ten-times further away from this oyster the globular cluster M4 floats in the background - filled with thousands of stars, aged and depleted and heading slowly towards their stellar life’s end.
Taken with Celestron 11" RASA
Skywatcher EQ8Rh-Pro Mount
QHY268M - Monochrome Camera
Hydrogen Alpha - 43 x 2m
Green - 23 x 2m
Blue - 24 x 2m
Combined as HaHaGB
Total Integration : 3 hours #byronbay #astrophotography #celestron #qhy #qhyccd #skywatcher #pixinsight @celestronuniverse @qhyccd_astropic
The star behind the Rho Ophiuchus region (literally), Rho Ophichus and companions, hot, young, blue stars at the tip of the darkest swath of dark molecular nebula. Taken this weekend, broadband with @celestronuniverse 11" RASA & @qhyccd_astropic 268M as L/R/G/B integration 3.2hrs - Click to ZOOM! #byronbay #astrophotography #celestronrocks #qhy #skywatcher #eq8rhpro
Ok I was a little heavy handed with the star reduction BUT check out that Hydrogen emission! It was all I could do to not just post a starless version. The most aptly common-named nebula in the sky, Cat’s Paw. First go at a new configuration which is pretty epic :
Celestron 11” RASA F2�
QHY268M Camera�
SkyWatcher EQ8Rh-Pro Mount
2m x 48 (Hydrogen Alpha)�
2m x 30 (Green Filter)�
2m x 31 (Oxygen[III])�
Combined as Ha-HaGO … LOL�
Total Integration : 3.63 hours� #astrophotography #byronbay #celestronrocks #skywatcher #qhyccd #catspaw #youresa #universetoday
The Anti Beam - a small delay between sequential exposures almost as long as a full 180• rotation of the actual beam, looped so the lighthouse looks like it’s casting darkness instead of light 🙂 #byronbay #astrophotography #canonaustralia #canon6dmkII
At near totality during the lunar eclipse I was able to capture an incredible amount of surface detail in this 4096px wide high resolution shot of the surface (Click to zoom). The Moon is orangey-red for the same reason the Sun appears that way during a sunrise or sunset, only this light is EVERY sunset and sunrise on Earth at the same time casting it's warm sunlight onto the Moon. @celestronuniverse C11" EHD Telescope at 1960mm magnification, @qhyccd_astropic QHY247C Colour camera. #lunareclipse2021 #byronbay #astrophotography #celestronrocks #qhyccd
Well that was a fun, collective, global lunacy last night wasn’t it? Here’s a still from the livestream I broadcast but without YouTube downscaling and compression. C11 / F7 / QHY247C #celestronrocks #astrophotography #byronbay #lunareclipse2021
The Moon, like, right now. 2 panel mosaic with @celestronuniverse C11" EDH / F7 / 0.015s / 1960mm & @qhyccd_astropic qhy247C Colour CMOS ... 3 more sleeps until the lunar eclipse! #byronbay #astrophotography
I just finished this image of Centaurus A, a weird looking and relatively close galaxy best viewed from the Southern Hemisphere. I was especially pleased to resolve hints of a relativistic jet for the first time in the bottom left area which are emissions coming directly from it’s central black hole!
The strategy for this image was to get as much broadband data as possible then only stack the best of that data which worked really well and I explain in more detail here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkVLdvtRxKY
Processing – Mono Lum : Flats, Darks, Subframe Selection, Star Registration, Integration, Drizzle, Histogram Transformation. One Shot Colour : Darks, Star Registration, Integration, Drizzle, Colour Calibration, Background Neutralisation, SCNR, Histogram Transformation.
@celestronuniverse 11” Edge HD @ F10 / 2800mm�
@skywatcheraustralia EQ8rh-Pro Mount
39 x 120s – No Filter – QHY268 Monochrome�
41 x 60s – No Filter – QHY247 Colour �
Total Integration – 1.98 hours from 6 nights of imaging. #astrophotography #celestronrocks #byronbay #galaxy #centaurusa #qhyccd #qhy @qhyccd_astropic
Here’s a hard fought close up of the Sombrero Galaxy I just finished using the Celestron 11″ EHD Telescope at it’s maximum 2800mm focal length and the 2-camera trick with the QHY268M for mono and QHY247C for colour. I really wanted to get up close and personal with this galaxy because the only thing better than it’s symmetry and shape is the fine detail in the surrounding ring of dust lanes. The texture and detail in the outer and inner rings are, quite frankly, mind-blowing.
There are a huge number of other little galaxies in the frame too!
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58 x 120s | No Filter | QHY268M (Mono)
14 x 300s | No Filter | QHY247C (Colour) @celestronuniverse @qhyccd_astropic
Your star is doing this *right now*, which you could see if you had one of the new @luntsolarsystems 40mm BF600 solar telescope like I do. 😉Consider solar astrophotography as we move out of the solar minimum to happier days of violent, hot, deadly solar winds! Always wear sunscreen though. #astrophotography #byronbay #lunt #lunt40mm
I know this is random, but I’ve been dropping tracks in Spotify and Apple Music. I write lofi, electronic music designed to be completely ignorable so you can study, stargaze or have sex to without my stupid voice breaking the forth wall and disrupting your flow. Two songs “Music for Telescopes” and “Polar Alignment” are out now. Follow me on your streaming platform for more as they come. My girl Anna features on keys and other instruments sometimes! Mastering by Michael Worthington from Soundworthy (also an astronomer / observatory) and artwork by the amazing @fultonhobbs Minor note - like my astro, my music is free. If you’re a content creator I’ve set the releases to never trigger content ID for copyright. It’s Creative Commons with Attribution, commercial is fine 🙂 #astrophotography #byronbay #lofi #electronic.
First light with new Lunt 40mm solar scope .. first impressions are very positive 🙂 some minor issues but way better than the Coronado PST .. this is a composite dual exposure to show the flare / prominence activity. More details on YouTube soon hopefully 🙂 #astrophotography #solar #lunt #lunt40mm
Another HaGO natural palette photo just taken from the Byron Bae Observatory! NGC 6188's dense cloud hides an entire baby star cluster inside it where we detect large IR emissions. We only see a peek via small hole in the dark. 🔭 @celestronuniverse 11" EHD F7 & @qhyccd_astropic 268M (4.9 hours) #byronbay #astrophotography #celestron #qhyccd #byronbaes #hago
NGC3324.. Not my best image (OAG problems made it soft) *but* I tried a new palette idea - HaGO - which I describe in more detail in the video. Basically, true natural colour images from mostly narrowband data. It kinda worked! I’d be interested to know if others can try this palette from light polluted areas and see if it works. C11, QHY268M youtube.com/watch?v=o4Rl3h… (10 mins) #celestronrocks #qhyccd #astrophotography #hago #narrowband #starstuff #byronbay #byronbaes
Sex is cool, but have you ever seen the Milky Way from the observatory that you built in your Southern Hemisphere backyard? ~200 x 15s / F2.8 / ISO 1600 Canon 6D Mk II #byronbaes #byronbay #startrail #observatory #astrophotography #canonaustralia
My car is not dirty, that’s the Milky Way. 🌌 I reckon I can do this better but it’s not an easy shot with dew, moon, time, angles, LP etc. Will try later in season with core. 30s / f2.8 / iso 6400 Canon 6d Mk II #tesla #Astrophotography #byronbay #byronbaes #canonaustralia
Byron Bae influencer here with some fresh Insta drama! Omg I went out to the cape to shoot Carina (she’s sooo hot right now) and there was another photographer there doing the SAME THING. Omg awkwaarrrd. Seriously though .. this green is the Earth’s own ionised atmosphere and look at how the dark emu reflects over the ocean! Happy international dark sky week! 5 x 30s / f2.8 / iso 3200 Canon 6D mk II and Tokina 16-24mm lens. #byronbaes #byronbay #canonaustralia #canon6dmkii #darkemu #carina #instadrama
This diffraction spike is caused by an oily thumbprint on the iPhone camera lens. The sky is finally back but not before a fortnight of rain shorted out the observatory, plunging my entire house into darkness last night. Today is for drying, and electrical work. I’ll be back to influencing your space opinions soon. 🤦🏽♂️ 🔭#byronbaes #byronbay
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